FEED YOUR MIND: the King's Festival of Food & Ideas

March 7th to March 22nd 2013

Festival

Ideas and the future

A Wired reader wrote…

Food is one of the defining global issues of our time: what are we eating? How does it reach our plates? Is there enough of it? It’s also one of the oldest pleasures we crave. It is not surprising then that food is related in some way to much of the research at King's College London.

The King’s College London Festival of Food & Ideas is a feast of free public events designed to showcase the latest thinking covering science, arts and the humanities and exploring themes as diverse as the science of chocolate, the taste of whisky, food and war, food addictions, food labelling, the medicinal properties of Chinese cuisine, superfoods, the medieval diet, food security, and much more.

Held at lunchtimes and early evenings, amongst 25 events (held at the Strand campus, the Guy’s Hospital campus and the Institute of Psychiatry), the festival includes:

Debates & discussions: food security, the cost of healthy eating, sustainability of slow food, politics of food labelling, ethics of consumer choice and food addictions Presentations: the science of chocolate, what your saliva says about you, the cult of celebrity chefs, the medieval diet and more

Speakers are recognised experts and public communicators in their fields. These include Tom Sanders, speaking here on the true cost of healthy eating; Alan Maryon-Davis on the politics of food labelling; and Clive Page and Mark Miodownik exploring the science, history and sensations of a globally prized delicacy... chocolate.

Join us for a series of events designed to stimulate the neurons, tickle the pleasure centres and excite the taste buds.

King's is involved in an astonishing range of research connected in some way with food, and the festival gives our experts the opportunity to share the fruits of their work with the public in an informative and entertaining way. Chris Coe, Director of Public Engagement, King's College London